The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-11-10
CONCORD AND DISC0RD.
DR.. TALMAGE breaches AT TIE
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
Ihe Whole Universe Was Once a Conn
Plete Cadence-Discord Brought About
by Sin-The Human Intellect Out OF
Tune-Eow to Restore Harmony.
BRCOKLN'N, Nov. 6.-The main feature
IL the music of the Brooklyn tabernacle
j the congregational singing. Today,
after The opening song, in which all The
thousands participated, Professor Browne
gave on the organ Scherzo, opus G1, by
Iienielssohn. The Rev. T.. De Witt
TLmage, d. D., expounded chapter in
the first book of Samuel where Saul,
possessed Of an evil spirit, threw a iave-
I'm at David, who was playing on the
harp before him, thus showing that The
evil spirit does not like sacred music.
The subject of the sermon was Concord
and DiscOrd," and the text was from
Job Xxxviii, 6, z: "Who laid the corner
stone thereof; when the morning stars
sang together!' DIR. Talmage said:
We have all seen the ceremony at the
laying of the corner stone of church,
asylum or Masonic temple. Into the
hollow of the stone were placed scrolls of
history and important documents to be
suggestive if, 100 or 200 years after, the
building should be destroyed by fire or
torn down. We remember the silver
trowel or iron hammer that smote the
square piece of granite into sanctity. We
remember some venerable man who pre-
sided, welding the trowel or hamn er
We remember also the music as the choir
stood on the scattered stones and timber
OF the building about to be construct ed.
The leaves of the note books fluttered in
the wind and were turned over with a
great rustling, and we remember Low
the bass, baritone, tenor, contralto and
soprano voices commingled. They Lad,
for many days, been rehearsing the spe-
Cial programme, that it CIight be worthy
Of the corner stone laying.
In my text the poet of Uz calls us to 4
Grander ceremony-the laying of the
foundation Of this great temple Of a
world. The corner stone was block of
light and the trowel was of celestial cTys-
tai All about and on the embankments
of cloud stood the angelic choristers, un-
rolling their ibrettos of overture, and
other worlds clapped shining cymbals
l.
the architect, by stroke of light after
stroke of light, dedicated this great ca
thedral of a world, with mountains for
pillars, and sky for frescoed ceiling, and
Towering fields for floor and sunrise and
midnight aurora for upholstery. "Who
laid the corner stone thereof. when the
morning stars sang tOgether?'
The fact is that the whole universe was
n complete cadence, an unbroken ditly-
Tanb, a musical portfolio. The great
sheet of immensity had been spread out.
and written on it We're the stars, thg
smaller of them minims, the larger Of
them sustained notes. The Iaetaora
marked the staccato passages; the whole
heavens a ganut, with all sounds, in
donations and mOdulations; the space be
tween the worlds a musical interval
trembling of stellar light a quaver; the
thunder a base clef; the wind amQne
trees a treble clef. That is the way
God made all things-a perfect harmony
But one day a harp string snapped il
the great orchestra. One day a voice
sounded out of tune. One day discOrd
harsh and terrific, grated upon the glori
GUS antiphone. 1t was sin that made the
dissonance and that harsh discord ha,
been sounding through the centuries. Al
the work of Christians, and philantlro-
pists, and reformers of all ages is to stOI
that discord, and get all things back inty
the perfect harmony which was heard a
the laying Of the corner stone, when tht
morning stars sang together. Before
get through, if | am divinely helped,
will make it plain that sin is discord anC
righteousness is harmony.
That things in general are out of TINE
IS as plain as to musicians ear is The
unhappy clash of clarionet and bass ooI
in an orchestral rendering.
The world health out of tune: Veal
lung and the atmosphere in collision, dis
ordered eye and MONDAY light in quarrel
rheumatic limb and damp weather i,
struggle, neuralgias and pneumonias amt
consumptions and epilepsies i'll flock
swoop upon neighborhoods and cities
Where you find one person with sOUnt
throat and keen eyesight, and alert ear
and easy respiration and regular pUIsa
tion. and supple limb, and prime djsses
ton and steady nerves, you find bun
gIred who have to he very careful becaus
this or that or the other physical funC
tion is disordered.
The human intellect out of tune: Tn
Judgment wrongly swerved or the MON
ory leal1y, or the will weak, or the tom
per inflammable and the well balance,
mind exceptional Domestic life out o
tune: Only here and there a conjuga
outbreak of incompatibility of tempe
through the divorce courts, or iila
outbreak ont fathers will about tn
-. ,Nfx fa cot
ing or husband poisoning through tn
criminal courts, but thousands of fan
ilies with June outside and Januar
within.
Society ont of tune: Labor and capita
their hands on each others throat S )ir
of caste keeping those down in the soci'
scale in a struggle to get up. and putin
those who are up in anxiety lest he
have TO come down. No wonder the ol
s,ianoforte of society is all out of t'ln,
when hypocrisy and lying, and suite
fugp. and double dealing, and sgct
infancy. and charlatanism and rev"ne
hsve for 5000 years been ban Eir
awav at the keys and stamping Il
pedals.
On all sides there is a perpetual shil
wreck of harmonies. Nations in discor'
Without realizing it, so wrong is the tcc
ing of nation for nation that the syn bo
chosen are fierce and destructive. In th
country, where our skies are full
robins and doves and morning larks. v
have for our national symbol the fer,
and filthy eagle-as immoral a bird as c;
be found in all the ornithologiCai cat
7og1es. In Great Britain, where he
>lavo lambs and fallow deer, their.syfa ID
S tho mercilcss Jon. In Russia, vlc
from betweca hcr frozen north al
blooming soush al kindly beasts o.rc
>hcy choose the growing beaI. f'i
he worlds heraldry a favorilo figure
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